Matthew Heineman Quotes
I love the challenge of taking these really complicated subjects and trying to humanise them.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
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I wasn't trained to be in front of a camera, so there were a lot of challenges at first. But I didn't want to be fake.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.
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When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.
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For me, art is always a kind of theater.
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I want to keep getting all-pros, keep stacking them.
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Move to California. Malibu is paradise.
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Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.
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I love the challenge of taking these really complicated subjects and trying to humanise them.
